This document accompanies the replication data and code for "Reassessing Extremism, Polarization, and Constraint with Continuous Policy Questions" by Anthony Fowler (anthony.fowler@uchicago.edu).

All analyses were conducted using Stata 19.5.

The file "code.do" contains all code necessary to replicate all tables and figures in the paper and appendix.

Many of the analyses utilize the data set "CleanedData.dta" The following data sets are necessary to construct this data set:
lucid_survey_all_matched.dta: the Lucid survey from Simonovits and Payson (2023)
MTurk1.dta: the first MTurk survey from Fowler and Howell (2023)
MTurk2.dta: the second MTurk survey from Fowler and Howell (2023)
YouGov.dta: the YouGov survey from Fowler and Howell (2023)
CCES23_Common_OUTPUT.dta: the common content from the 2023 Cooperative Election Study
UCHI00012_OUTPUT.sav: the YouGov survey from Eggers et al. (2024)

Codebook for "CleanedData.dta":
Each row icorresponds to a survey respondent. The variables are
study: a string indicating which survey the respondent answered
dem: Democrats are 1, Republicans are 0, independents are missing
leaner: leaners are 1, pure partisans are 0, variable is missing where this is not available or for data sets with no leaners
localminwage: preferences over local minimum wage
minwage: preferences over federal minimum wage
sudan: preferences over foreign aid to South Sudan
covid: preferences over COVID relief spending
refugee: preferences over refugee admissions
infrastructure: preferences over infrastructure spending
police: preferences over police spending
abortion: preferences over legal abortion
weight: survey weights (coded as 1 for data sets where weights are not available)



